Journal of Health Sciences (J Health Sci) 2012; (2)6: 36-41 The journal has had 4 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland parametric evaluation. List B item 683 FEATURES OF PSYCHO - EMOTIONAL SPHERE OF PATIENTS WITH STRESS – ASSOCIATED ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION A. Podolsky Research Institute of Medical Rehabilitation and Balneology Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Odessa, Ukraine © The Author(s) 2012; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Radom University in Radom, Poland Key words: hypertension, stress, psycho-emotional sphere. Abstracts. The aim of this study is to examine the association between symptoms of stress-tension, depression and anxiety and hypertension status. In the studu were used next questionnaires "Determination of nervous and mental strain" (by T. Nemchin, 1988), the scale of PSM-25 (by Lemyr-Tessier-Fillion, 1983), Method for determining stress-tndurance and social adaptation (by Holmes and Rage,1995) Boston stres-endurance test, and evaluation of stress (by Kouhen, 1995), Beck depression scale (BDI), self-test hypochondria (by Wilson test), "exhaustion of vitality" (by Appels) and scales of anxiety ( by Spielberger). The study of changes in the level of psycho-emotional men with hypertension proven correlation with the degree of hypertension severity of mental disorders. This result proves, that successful treatment of hypertension impossible without psychotherapy and / or use of psychopharmacological agents.

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